Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism Exercise

Antithesis and/or Parallelism?

Antithesis and/or parallelism? "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." --Neil Armstrong.

Antithesis and/or parallelism? "Many are called, but few are chosen."  --Matthew 22:14.

Antithesis and/or parallelism? We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

Antithesis & Parallelism The following slides are both antithesis and parallelism. Mark them up to show what’s parallel with what and what the opposites/contrasts are.

Antithesis and/or parallelism Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.

Antithesis and/or parallelism Duty is heavier than a mountain; death is lighter than a feather.

Antithesis and/or parallelism “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.” --A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Antithesis and/or parallelism Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. --Winston Churchill

Chiasmus, antithesis, and/or Parallelism?

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love.” --Bias (6th century B.C.)

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” --Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “. . . and that government of the people, by the people, shall not perish from the earth.” –-Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “To err is human; to forgive divine.” –Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Criticism”

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?” --Oscar Hammerstein, “Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful?”

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “We’ve seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers--in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.” --George W. Bush, Address to the Nation on Terrorism

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.” --Socrates, 5th century B.C.

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “The loss we felt was not the loss of ham but the loss of pig.” –E.B. White, “Death of a Pig”

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” –John Milton, Paradise Lost

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “New roads, new ruts.” --attributed to G.K. Chesterton

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “In the blue grass region, a paradox was born: The corn was full of kernels and the colonels full of corn.” –John Marshall

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.” –MLK, Jr.

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing.” –Goethe

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? “O well for the fisherman’s boy, that he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad that he sings in his boat on the bay!” –Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Break, Break, Break”

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? Sheep get like shepherds, and shepherds get like sheep. (Caden Cluff)

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? The more you get, the less you want. (Calvin Whiting)

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? Begin at the last that they may be first and that the first may be last. (Sarah Mathews)

Chiasmus, Antithesis, and/or Parallelism? No chance, too little, too cute.

Is the following a Tricolon? Explain. No chance, too little, too cute.